What is Homeopathy?

Hi all! As a first post, I felt that it would be best to address the question: “what is homeopathy?” It is very important to understand this before exploring remedies and other products and information related to homeopathy.

What Homeopathy is NOT

Homeopathy is probably one of the most misunderstood methods of medicine. Many people, including both die-heart supporters and fierce opponents of homeopathy, have made totally incorrect claims about this unique system of healing. I have heard totally inaccurate descriptions coming from both of these sides. It is NOT…

a drug.

herbal remedies.

Chinese medicine.

allopathic/conventional/Western medicine.

primarily focusing on physical symptoms.

a “quick fix.”

What Homeopathy Actually Is

Homeopathy is very much in a league of its own. It is an holistic, energy-based medicine that aims to inspire healing on every level-psychologically, mentally, emotionally, and physically. Homeopathy works on four core principles:

like cures like – this means to treat an ailment using by utilizing the energetic properties of a substance that causes similar ailments. For example, a person could use homeopathic Sulphur to treat a skin ailment such as eczema or cellulitis. Sulphur in its original form produces similar symptoms when coming in contact with skin.

totality – homeopathic remedies are used to address the entire person, not just individual symptoms or conditions.

potentization – homeopathy uses remedies that are potentized, which means that they work on a more energetic level in enhancing health and well being.

Homeopathy aims to treat a person as a whole, unlike conventional medicine which focuses solely to simply suppress the disease of a person

Homeopathic Remedy Makeup

In a nutshell, homeopathic remedies are derived from various substances such as plants, herbs, minerals, and even animals. Through a series complex and long processes, known as potentization and succussion, the energetic properties of a specific type of substance are extracted and manifested into a sugar-pellet with its own potency.

So while the remedy itself barely contains anything left of the original substance, it still retains the substance’s energy and essence, which is the main component in the homeopathic remedy used to find the right remedy for the patient and the totality of a person’s symptoms.

Because the makeup of each and every homeopathic remedy essentially consists of its own respective energy, this makes homeopathy VERY individualized, unlike the vast majorities of conventional and even alternative medicines out there.

Each person being treated homeopathically, based on their own unique symptoms, will require a remedy best suited for them. For example, even if 10 people are undergoing severe grief, those same 10 people will most likely receive their own remedy suited best for them and their individual symptoms.

What Homeopathy is Beneficial For

In essence, homeopathy is full capable of resolving various kinds of chronic and acute mental, emotional, and physical ailments and issues. Whether alongside other forms of medicine or on its own, homeopathy has been well documented (both in clinical and anecdotal settings) in resolving health issues such as:

Anxiety/Depression.

Grief.

Food Disorders.

Migraines.

Eye Problems.

Sinuses/Allergies.

Bone Pains & Discomforts.

Chronic & Acute Injuries.

Inflammations.

Constipation/Diarrhea.

Prostate/Urinary Problems.

Chronic Body Pains.

Fears & Phobias.

Restlessness.

Female Health/Hormonal Issues.

Digestion.

Circulatory Complications.

Skin Issues.

Auto-Immune Diseases.

Chronic Fatigue.

Infections.

Muscular Pains.

Fatigue.

and much more!

Homeopathy Through The Ages

Centuries before modern homeopathy even existed, medical modalities using somewhat similar homeopathic approaches were being commonly employed by the physicians of those times. As early as 3500 years ago in India, a practice known as “visa chikitsa” was used to treat different types of poisonous animal bites using similar poisonous venoms. During Biblical and Talmudic times [approximately 2000-3500 years ago] other similar methods based on the “Law of Similars” were utilized [See Exodus 15:23-25; Talmud Tractate Yoma 83a]

Samuel Hahnemann – The Founder of Modern Homeopathy

The homeopathy that we know of today was developed and founded approximately 200 years ago by the renowned Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, an extremely prominent German physician of his time. Upset with the often barbaric and even hazardous conventional, allopathic medicine of his era, he discovered homeopathy while translating a medical book describing the Law of Similars. He thereafter tested this theory by taking doses of Cinchona [Peruvian Bark], which produced symptoms of malaria. He then used the same Cinchona to heal himself. Noting the symptoms he produced, he conducted numerous experiments and treated numerous patients based on the Law of Similars. He noted the effectiveness of these homeopathic treatments as well as the fact that each patient required his/her own specific remedy to heal oneself, and that the main causes of illness stemmed from a person’s derangement in their vital force, the spirit-like energy that animates all living things, basically a person’s soul. In other words, Hahnemann contended that the main underlying causes of a person’s illnesses were psychological/mental/emotional in nature; these causes are what manifest into physical illnesses and they manifest differently for each individual.

The founder of Homeopathy, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann

Furthermore, he noticed that rather than using large doses to ensure wellness, he saw that remedies used in lower doses, or potencies, effected greater, gentler results and resonated better with patients and their holistic healing process. Hahnemann wrote down the foundations, science, and philosophy of Homeopathy as well as his criticism of allopathic medicine in the Organon, the “Bible” of Homeopathy till this very day.

What is Homeopathy: An Amazing Medicine Even For Today!

Since Hahnemann’s time, homeopathy and its usage has spread from his native Germany throughout the world.

Despite envious opposition and propaganda by opponents, which was able to endanger the extinction of homeopathy in the USA between the 20s and 70s, it has nonetheless gained support and popularity among many prominent medical doctors and laymen, both of past and present. Many, if not all, of the unbiased research and clinical testing on homeopathy has proven its effectiveness and safeness, as well as the truth of its principles.

According to the World Health Organization, homeopathy is the second most used system of healing in the world, ahead of both Chinese and even Western medicine (herbal medicine is #1). According to the same statistics, homeopathy is the fastest growing health modality in the world today. From India, where homeopathy has gone 100% mainstream, to the United States, where it is now quickly becoming way more mainstream than before, and everywhere in-between, homeopathy is today one of the most sought after medicines as it is currently being used by millions of people around the world.

As in Hahnemann’s era, homeopathy is continuing its mission of providing holistic, energetic, and safe healing to all those who need it.

About the author

Ariel Baradarian

Ariel Baradarian, CCH is an experienced holistic certified homeopathic practitioner with success in addressing a wide variety of mental, emotional, and physical ailments in men, women, and children of all stripes. He works both alongside local medical and integrative doctors and their patients as well as with his own growing, global private practice, both in person in his office in Queens, NY and globally via video chat sessions. Ariel is also a natural health blogger and chief editor of naturalholistichomeopathic.com, which is dedicated to helping others heal on all levels using various types of natural healing, including homeopathy. In addition, he is the New York Producer of the Vibrant Living Network, an inspiring organization dedicated to promoting a community natural and holistic health, mindful consciousness, relational intelligence and more!

Haha there is nothing to be embarrassed about at all (I’ve been in your position before). I am actually not an expert on Reiki, but in my opinion, Reiki uses Buddhist techniques to channel energy to people in order to bring about healing. Homeopathy uses and adjust the person’s energy (or vital force as it’s most commonly called in homeopathy) in order to restore a person to full health.

Reiki relies on touch in order to channel energy into a person & to bring about holistic healing. Homeopathy use energetic homeopathic remedies to “turn on” a person’s vital force in order to inspire the body to do heal & strengthen on its own on all levels using its own mechanisms.